MTV: Sarah Palin's ABC Interview Creatively Reported

MTV: Still misleading young Americans


MTV should get an award for the brazenness of its misleading coverage of Governor Palin's interview with Charlie Gibson. Picking up the left wing blogosphere's Palin as "advocate for war with Russia" meme and running with it, they characterized her her view on the Russia/Georgia conflict in a single, simplistic line:

Palin also discussed her views on foreign policy, saying that if Russia invades the neighboring country of Georgia, the United States might have to go to war with them.

It's like MTV isn't even trying. Of course, we know that Palin was talking about Georgia's entry into NATO, and when pressed by Gibson, she properly explained the nature of a military alliance. But I guess MTV assumes "the kids" are too stupid to handle nuances like context and details, especially when they're attempting to characterize the Republican candidate as a warmonger.

If you'll remember, this is not the first time MTV has done this. In '04, MTV was amongst the media outlets pushing the idea that the draft would return if Bush won re-election. MTV apparently doesn't think it's done its job unless it convinces impressionable kids that they're on the verge of being thrown into a meat grinder.

But MTV's biasfest 2008 didn't stop there. No, they went on to parrot lib talking points about the so called "scandalous" prayer Palin gave:

The candidate also took some time to clear up a comment she made at an Alaska church in which she called the war in Iraq "a task from God." "I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words," she said. "But what Abraham Lincoln had said — and that's a repeat in my comments — was let us not pray that God is on our side in a war or any other time, but let us pray that we are on God's side."

Notice that MTV takes literally 4 words from to make it seem as if Governor Palin considers Iraq to be some sort of crusade in the name of God. Once again, the prayer in full:

Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan."

This prayer is not something that would even require any "clearing up", or further explanation if they would just stop misquoting it. But what are we supposed to expect from MTV, who for years haven't been able to hide their bias. They're just another cog in the liberal broadcast media machine; MSNBC jr if you will.


Screw them, Fuse is better anyway.

by Rizzuto
Conservative Punk
Source: MTV; Still misleading young Americans
image: wired; dbkp

John Edwards, Sarah Palin: Tale of Two NY Times' Stories

NY Times Tale of the Investigative Tape:
John Edwards: Ten months
Sarah Palin: Five days



It all boils down to what you're interested in investigating.

ITEM: It took the New York Times ten months to muster the willpower to look into the John Edwards affair, scandal and ongoing cover-up. It took the Grey Shady only five days to swing into action on Sarah Palin.

ITEM: It was reported today that the NY Times lost another 30,000+ subscribers.

Are the two items related?

The Times' investigative sleuths better go back to Dirt Digging 101: the dirt as seen through the eyes of the proud party progressives who labor in the editorial room wouldn't fill a small sweeper bag.

Times' "reporter", Elisabeth Bumiller is worried about the "vetting process" by the John McCain campaign when they chose Palin. After all, Palin's daughter is pregnant and Palin's husband had a DUI 22 years ago.

From Disclosures on Palin Raise Questions on Vetting Process:

On Monday morning, Ms. Palin and her husband, Todd, issued a statement saying that their 17-year-old unmarried daughter, Bristol, was five months pregnant and that she intended to marry the father.

Among other less attention-grabbing news of the day: it was learned that Ms. Palin now has a private lawyer in a legislative ethics investigation in Alaska into whether she abused her power in dismissing the state’s public safety commissioner; that she was a member for two years in the 1990s of the Alaska Independence Party, which has at times sought a vote on whether the state should secede; and that Mr. Palin was arrested 22 years ago on a drunken-driving charge.

A drunken driving charge against Todd Palin from twenty-two years ago raises the red flags for Elisabeth Bumiller; Edwards impregnating a paramour while campaigning on morality and making "family" a centerpiece of his campaign, didn't.

A wayward teen daughter concerns Ms. Bumiller, while funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars through associates, lying to the public, and the dozens of curious connections in the John Edwards story only served as a sort of journalistic sleep aid for her and the NY Times.

While there was no sign that her formal nomination this week was in jeopardy, the questions swirling around Ms. Palin on the first day of the Republican National Convention, already disrupted by Hurricane Gustav, brought anxiety to Republicans who worried that Democrats would use the selection of Ms. Palin to question Mr. McCain’s judgment and his ability to make crucial decisions.

John McCain makes a decision which absolutely shores up--what was until his announcement of Palin for VP--lukewarm conservative support, and the NY Times is scouring the globe to find Republicans who are worried that "Democrats would use the selection of Ms. Palin to question Mr. McCain’s judgment"?

FLASH!

If John McCain had chosen Jesus Christ as Vice-President, Democrats would have used the selection for political gain: that's what political parties do. There would have been the odd Republican worried about it and the Times would have all over that RINO like John Edwards on a videographer in a NY bar.

The Mainstream (Progressive) Media is always "worried" about whether Republicans and conservatives will hurt themselves while playing in the political street. It's an old game--and one that NY Times' ex-readers were onto a long time ago.

Huffington Post reported today that the New York Times Circulation Plummets, as another 30,000+ subscribers scrubbed the Times' brand of "journalism" off their list.

The Times can't even interest people in New York City: it's now the fourth-largest seller among NYC resident.

The New York Times has lost almost 20% of its circulation in New York City between 2001 and 2004, its competitor, The New York Post reports. And the Post gleefully notes that its own circulation in NYC has soared 29% in the same period. So comparing the papers' circulation in New York City today, the Post sells 371,341 copies to the Times' 260,526.

One other Times' "bombshell" was that Palin "was a member for two years in the 1990s of the Alaska Independence Party, which has at times sought a vote on whether the state should secede".

Leave aside for the moment how many thousands of disgusted Americans might feel the same way; thousands of New York Times' readers continue to vote with their pocketbooks about seceding from the Times' subscriber list.

The investigative timelines for John Edwards and Sarah Palin gives them another good reason to flee the New York Times.


by Mondoreb
image: bentartgallery

MSM: Russia's Rape of Georgia is Georgians Own Fault

Residents of Gori wait to receive humanitarian aid from local authorities as Russia called today for Georgian forces to surrender in the separatist enclave of Abkhazia

"Amid promise of peace, Georgians live in terror"

So reads the headlines of The Guardian. And from the same source:

Several Russian trucks overshot and missed their turning. One broke down. A soldier got the wheezing vehicle going again. Where was he from? "Chechnya. We've come here to help," he said.For the terrified residents of Gori and surrounding villages, it didn't seem like help. Yesterday morning, as the Russian tanks advanced from their base in South Ossetia they passed through Georgian controlled-villages, telling residents to hang out white flags or be shot.Behind them, according to people fleeing those villages, came a militia army of Chechen and Ossetian volunteers who had joined up with the regular Russian army. The volunteers embarked on an orgy of looting, burning, murdering and rape, witnesses claimed, adding that the irregulars had carried off young girls and men.

There are accounts slowly coming out of Georgia about the behavior of Russian soldiers in Georgia. Unlike the criticism leveled at American troops, the Russians--like Muslims, Chinese and other groups favored by the left--do not get much press, either here or at home. No marches on the Russian Embassy, no Europeans going to the streets. Nothing--except allusions by the left--or Obama--that Bush is at fault.

It is now time to collect some of the outrageous tales coming out of this seemingly-civilized section of the world; to review Putin's troops and expose their Rules Of Engagement. Maybe it is time for a refresher on why our parents and grandparents hated Russia, why so many immigrated to America.


Mari's Tale

Monday, August 18, 2008
21 year old girl raped by "soldiers" (eye-witness reports)
Elene Gelashvili, 21 years old, is a refugee from the village of Nikozi:
"When the fighting started in Cxinvali, we all took shelter in the cellars of our houses…our house wasn't hit by a bomb, but there were dead and wounded all over the place. We couldn't stay there any longer and decided to walk by foot towards Gori. On the road a driver picked us up and took us to Gori with his minibus.
He told the young girl to cover their heads with a veil and act as if you were elderly people, the Russians and Ossetians are everywhere, they are stopping cars and if they like some girl, they take her right away. "Act, as if you were old women!" My friend Mari said, "What a nonsense, how should they take us away"; we implored her, but she was such a hard-head….
We hadn't even passed a kilometre, when we were stopped by 30 armed Russians. A skinny guy put is head into the minibus, saw Mari and pulled her out of the car. All in all there were three men in the bus, which they started to beat with their guns. Then they told the driver to drive on, I still have Maris pale face on my mind….
Two days later we were still in Gori but planned to go to Tbilisi, when we heard of a girl, that had been tortured by soldiers; I couldn't breathe anymore…….I said to myself "if that would really be Mari, she´d be alive at least. I asked some soldiers for her and when I finally found her I hardly recognised her….she had blood all over and was in a terrible state. They had taken her to a village near Cxinvali and about 50 men had raped her there. Then they had put her on drugs and mutilated her. She begged them to kill her…"

Aliko's Tale

It´s hard for me to speak about those things, but I have to, cause all have to know how inhuman and sadistic these Russians are. Take them to court, I beg you…..

My wife has died when she gave birth to our twins, I raised our twins alone, after that also my grandchildren. When this horrible war started Ani was 17, Levan 15. Levan was torn into pieces in front of my eyes by a bomb, his body has been separated from the legs. Ani was taken to a house by soldiers, those murderers, I could hear hear wailing and moaning, but coudn´t do anything about it; I was lying on the ground, after they had beaten me up….

And those pigs still weren’t satisfied with raping her, they told her: “Run, if you make it away from here within 10 seconds, you´ll be free. The deafened and weeping child ran away and was shot by them when they hadn´t even count to three. My dear grandchild."




Tina's tale


"Happened incredible thing: Russian barbarians demolished our gorge. They bombed houses; houses with people inside were in flames. We left our homes and escaped, the road was horrifying: bombs were exploding in front of us damaging cars and people. I saw a car packed with people blew up, human intestines were flying in the air. Some women from my village chose other way to leave the gorge, through river and forests. Cars were carrying bodies of young boys. The gorge is full of dead bodies who were not buried and have been left for crows to eat. I saw a woman who bowled up in front of her house, she was split in many many parts. Wounded asked for help, but there was nobody able to help them. I saw how Russians put two men in sacks and shoot them… Elders stayed in gorge. My parents stayed there. My dad has diabetes and can’t walk. I know their life is in danger, they know it too and they are waiting for death."

Russians robbing a bank




GEORGIAN President Micheil Saakashvili is accusing irregulars associated with the Russian army of raping and looting their way across his country.

"This army travels around with irregulars, travels around with marauders, travels around with rapists, travels around with arsonists, robbers and with looters," Mr Saakashvili said today."

"Saakashvili said Russian forces have run amok. "Russian tanks are going for villages inhabited by Georgian populations and throwing people out of their houses, putting people into concentration camps that they are setting up in those villages, and separating men and women," he told CBS News.

"They are taking things like even furniture, toilet seats, killing people, terrorizing people."




And The Mainstream Media does not think that Mr Putin's army deserves anything but a mild reprimand--and a hint or two that Georgians brought this on themselves.

by pat
images:
* Getty
* make them accountable
* muktadhara
* the we
sources
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-62677
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/14/georgia.russia
http://russiangeorgianwar.blogspot.com/2008/08/girls-raped-by-soldiers-age-21.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1043236/Georgia-overrun-Russian-troops-scale-ground-invasion-begins.html
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24184638-5001028,00.html
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08142008/news/worldnews/nazi_atrocities_shock_georgia_124392.htm

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by Mondoreb
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